Comments on: How Hard Is It To Learn Japanese?

By: Karen Leanne Sandberg

Karen Leanne Sandberg — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 08:58:54 +0000

I would like to saying Japanese is friendly very humble passionate of heart gratitude. Japan is famous culture worldwide discover their background with Japanese society heritage. Everything I rather Japanese are cultural human rights beliefs mostly they participated religious freedoms.Japanese was official language borrowed at Japan nationals countryside.

By: Won Jun Lee

Won Jun Lee — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 21:59:26 +0000

Japanese is the hardest langauge in the Entire normal
Universe 5.8*10^123 light years+ 93 billion light years
Mainly because It has 2136 Kanji+100 Japanese letters and complex grammar
But It is diifiicult

Total land area for planet, earth is 510.1 millon km2
about 362.1 millionkm2 is ocean about 3400 meters deep
148 millon km2 is land
countires and Poulation lives here since there is no techology storng yet even in 2020 to develop bases under ocean.

Anglosphere Population is 1.5 billion
Land area 29 millon sq km2
Means that English langauge is offical in
2900,0000km2 out of 148,000,000km2
land on planet earth
and 1500,000,000 out of 7750,000,000 population use English as an offical langauge
and The hardest language for English users
is the Japanese language

Japan377,973km2
Population
126,317,000
GDP$5.176 trillion
� Per capita
$41,021
China population 1420,000,000
land area 9400,000km2
Gdp 14.2 trillion
Per Capita 10,500
South Asia Population 1814,630,000
GDP 4.1 trillion
Per Capita 15,00
land area 5200,000km2
The earth population is about

But languages are more united in china
Therefore mandarin Chinese is easier than languages in South Asia
And Japanese.

I decided to Take Jlpt up to N3 because it is very rare in Anglosphere

By: Karen Leanne Sandberg

Karen Leanne Sandberg — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:04:01 +0000

experiencing share about Japanese are friendly with humble passionate hearts of gratitude in personalities; I should rather is Japanese needed to extra hard works production elsewhere on building and factory; I would Japanese studies well aboard to easy understanding foreigner stay here in Japan; language culture of Japanese are uses three different systems for writing. There are two syllabaries—hiragana and katakana—which have characters for each basic mora (syllable.) Japanese language, with more than 50,000 different symbols by some estimates. However, most Japanese can get by with using about 2,000 different kanji in everyday communication. In Japan, some of the core values are thinking of others, doing your best, not giving up, respecting your elders, knowing your role, and working in a group. … From a very young age, Japanese children are taught omoiyari (to notice and think of others). Japan’s cultural heritage are greatly valued and designated as ‘living national treasures’. Japan’s history has been defined too by its literature and poetry. The culture identified with the Japanese was not brought to the islands of Japan until about 300 B.C. It was brought by a people called the Yayoi from the Korean peninsula.

By: François

François — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 04:29:50 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree with this post.

Some additions from personal experience:
Daily Japanese uses only limited vocabulary, so it’s indeed not so difficult to get to conversational level. I would even say daily Japanese is quite poor in word diversity & depth.

But business settings, books, even manga (if you dig out of Jump publications) will use a very, very much more extended vocabulary that, as pointed by the author here, means daily new words popping out even after 14 years of study & daily use in my case (living in Japan, Japanese wife & job in a Japanese company).
Latest examples: 頓服、垣間見る、朗報、おぞい、強靭、水嵩、謗る・・・ definitely not daily words, but nothing so extravagant either that I wouldn’t cross the equivalent in English or French every now & then. (i.e. wouldn’t take 14 years)

Another point: After a while, learning kanji help grow your vocabulary immensely. It’s an advantage over alphabet: when you see a word you don’t know, but know the kanji of, you might immediately understand the meaning (with more or less accuracy). Works with Chinese, too.
Example: I could kind of guess the meaning of the above 朗報 and 強靭 also I had never seen those words before, because I know the kanji they’re made from.

By: Ariki

Ariki — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:43:49 +0000

This post is funny, sincere and accurate, but also slightly deceiving. Japanese grammar is easy and, if you get into, kind of structured. At first. Then, being the Japanese an empathic language, it gets insane cause it tend to communicate not only the message but also the feelings with which it is expressed. Luckily most of the advanced pattern are very rarely used in the everyday. Kanji are, in my opinion the easiest part. They have reading (ON and KUN) and rules – that as every language have a tons of exceptions. Nevertheless Japanese is a very complicated language for the reason you implicitly stated: Japanese has 3/4 (if you are a woman 5/6) diversified registers that are, in the worst cases, totally different among them. True the “survival” level can be mastered in no time and Japanese people gap in English will grant you abundance of chances to use the language but the people, for the basically different idea of social relations/ socialization, will be rarely really “parenting” you through the language learning process (something that happens very easily in China, USA, Italy..), ergo you will be likely doing thousands of times the SAME identical conversations with different people, learning not very much. I said parenting because that is considered one of the 5 essential “tool” to master a language quickly by Chris Lonsdale. What I consider very hard in Japanese is the use of the vocabulary, in the sense that is not as difficult to understand and remember some expression as much as it is to properly use it. Once a Japanese professor pointed at her head and said to me and my classmates “is not difficult to talk like a Japanese.. but we consider almost impossible for a foreigner to THINK like one.”

By: Roman

Roman — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 09:33:50 +0000

In reply to Yang.

I really like this “yes and no” answer. When someone says that Japanese is easy to encourage others to start studying it, I feel a little bit down because of my 1.5 year invested in the language. On the other hand, it’s definitely not true that Japanese is incredibly hard. Maybe some people have easier time with foreign languages than me, but I consider every foreign language a challenge, but not an impossible one.
Japanese in particular has simple pronunciation, very logical although unusual for a Indo-European language native grammar and a very tricky writing system. Also, the closer the language you study is to the language or languages you are proficient in, the faster you’ll learn all the necessary vocabulary. To sum it up, Japanese is not incredibly difficult but challenging enough and most certainly takes very very long to study.

By: Yang

Yang — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:06:17 +0000

For me Japanese was not too hard. But I am a Chinese/English bilingual so maybe it was easier for me. ^^